Deliberation is considered to produce positive effects on public opinion, in that it exposes participants to alternative perspectives and rational arguments. However, whereas benefits of face-to-face deliberation have been supported by many empirical studies, the effects of online deliberation remain unclear to date. This research compares the effects of online and face-to-face deliberation in ...

Desire conflicts arise in several real-world contexts. In this paper, we propose a mixed deliberation dialogue for reconciliation. A mixed deliberation dialogue is defined as a combination of forward and backward deliberation dialogues with respective goals which are subordinate and superordinate desires of a given desire. This research and the introduction of mixed deliberation dialogue have b...

In this paper, we de ne a measure for evaluating conversational coherency and propose a method of computing it. We de ne a deliberation stream in email communication and construct deliberation structure which the deliberation streams are introduced into. And we de ne discontinuity between utterances as the measure for evaluating conversational coherency by using the deliberation structure, con ...

In this paper, we propose a deliberation structure model that may be useful in understanding the stream of deliberation in email communication. And also we propose a method for constructing the structure. In order to represent the structure, we de ne the extended contribution tree. A contribution tree is one of conversational models. We call the extended tree a deliberation tree. It will be use...

We propose a model, called a deliberation structure model, that represents streams of relevant messages in email communication. The deliberation structure model treats e-mail messages that include several topics and uses tree structure, called deliberation trees, that are based on Clark’s contribution trees to represent message structure. Deliberation trees are useful to visualize the message s...

In this paper, an experiment was conducted to assess the impact of online deliberation on citizens’ attitudes. Specifically, this research compared pre and post deliberation opinions of participants who deliberated online via an asynchronous platform regarding the issue of political opinion polls. Results indicate that online deliberation had a positive effect on citizens’ attitudes since it wa...

Desire conflicts arise in several real-world contexts. In this paper we propose a mixed deliberation dialogue for reconciliation. A mixed deliberation dialogue is defined as a combination of forward and backward deliberation dialogues whose goals are subordinate and superordinate desires of a given desire, respectively. This research and the introduction of mixed deliberation dialogue have been...

An important aspect of agent autonomy is the decision making capability of the agents. We discuss several issues that agents need to deliberate about in order to decide which action to perform. We assume that there is no unique (rational or universal) deliberation process and that the deliberation process can be specified in various ways. The deliberation process is investigated from two perspe...

T paper studies optimal product line design when consumers need to incur costly deliberation to uncover their valuations for quality. To induce deliberation, a firm must maintain quality dispersion and cut the price of the high-end product so that consumers are motivated to deliberate in the hope that high-end consumption fits their needs. To prevent deliberation, the firm may have to offer dow...